# Where are my posts going?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-posts-going/369511>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-posts-going/369511 "2006-08-20T23:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-posts-going/369511/21 "2006-08-29T17:45:12Z")

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At an uninformed guess, I’d say that this sounds like some sort of rollback: The board might have some sort of short-term automatic backup system, or store information in multiple places (a short-term buffer or cache, and a longer-term, more stable storage), and that the short-term information might be shown in the thread, but that some sort of glitch causes the software to automatically revert to the long-term version. I can’t even guess what sort of glitch is causing the need for the rollback, or how serious it is, but this would at least explain how such a thing could occur.

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